Introduction P. J. Finglass and Adrian Kelly; Part I. Contexts: 1. Sappho's lives Maarit Kivilo; 2. Sappho's Lesbos Rosalind Thomas; 3. Sappho and sexuality Melissa Mueller; 4. Sappho and epic Adrian Kelly; 5. Sappho and Alcaeus Wolfgang Rösler; 6. Sappho and archaic Greek song culture Deborah Steiner; Part II. Poetics: 7. Sappho and genre Leslie Kurke; 8. Performing Sappho Franco Ferrari; 9. Sappho's metres and music Luigi Battezzato; 10. Sappho's dialect Olga Tribulato; 11. Sappho's poetic language Vanessa Cazzato; 12. Sappho's personal poetry André Lardinois; 13. Sappho's lyric sensibility Alex Purves; 14. Myth in Sappho Ruth Scodel; 15. The gods in Sappho Laura Swift; Part III. Transmission: 16. The Alexandrian edition of Sappho Lucia Prauscello; 17. Sappho on the papyri P. J. Finglass; 18. Editions of Sappho since the Renaissance P. J. Finglass; Part IV. Receptions: 19. Sappho in fifth- and fourth-century Greek literature Lyndsay Coo; 20. Sappho and Hellenistic poetry Richard Hunter; 21. Sappho at Rome Llewelyn Morgan; 22. Sappho in imperial Greek literature Ewen Bowie; 23. Sappho at Byzantium Filippomaria Pontani; 24. Early modern Sapphos in France and England Stuart Gillespie; 25. Early modern and modern German, Italian, and Spanish Sapphos Cecilia Piantanida; 26. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Sapphos in France, England, and the United States Marguerite Johnson; 27. Sappho and modern Greece Dimitrios Kargiotis; 28. Sappho in the twentieth century and beyond: anglophone receptions Barbara Goff and Katherine Harloe; 29. Sappho in Australia and New Zealand Marguerite Johnson; 30. Sappho in Latin America Robert De Brose; 31. Sappho in Hebrew literature Adriana X. Jacobs; 32. Sappho in India Ruth Vanita; 33. Sappho in China and Japan Jingling Chen; List of works cited; Index of passages discussed; Index of subjects; Index of Greek.